On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:01:40AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > An excellent point, and one worth stating in big, bold letters on > nm.debian.org. NM is not meant to be a training program, but a > certification process of sorts. Would it make sense to have a training/development program? For new maintainers and experienced maintainers as well as / instead of applicants? (There are ways to do such things other than telling experienced people "stop doing useful work, help these stupid people instead"; having less experienced people assigned to help more experienced people can pass on some knowledge and divide harder jobs, better than just leaving inexperienced people to work on some new package no one cares that much about; moving experienced people from one project they've been working on for a while to a new project that they're less experienced with can also have benefits -- letting new people gain the same experience the oldbie had, and letting the oldbie broaden his/her horizons. This is easier said than arranged, though) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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